Fall and Halloween Decor!

Happy October!

The HALLOWEEN month! Yay!

Now don't get too excited here people, I'm still young so I don't have much when it comes to my second favorite holiday, but I get excited about what I have. :)

My stuff has been up for a while, but now that it's October I feel I can safely post about it. :)  Haha!  Before I show you some pictures, just an update about what we've been up to.  Brandon has been practically living outdoors when he's not at work.  He has been working on our lumpy lawn.  We rented a power raker to dig up all of the dead stuff, raked it into piles and bagged it. (I did help with a little bit of that)  Then, we bought a bunch of topsoil and he has been diligently spreading that around our yard trying to fill in holes.  He is also planting grass seed since a lot of it is gone :(  I for one would HATE being outdoors this much and doing all of this work, but I think Brandon really enjoys it. 

I have been INSIDE (where I like to think I belong) getting pretty much the last few boxes unpacked, cleaning (it's never-ending) and enjoying my brand new PIANO!!!!!!!  OK, not new, but new to me....and I LOVE it!  Wanna see a picture?  Ok, here you go:

Ahhh, so nice

 Anyways, gorgeous hug?  :)  I'm pretty in love.  Well, enough ogling of the piano.  Here are some pictures of what Brandon has been up to:

Here is my creepy stalker picture of Brandon spraying the house with bug killer stuff :)

His new look is "shirtless"

Here is the handy dandy power raker we rented.

If you can tell, it dug up a lot of dead stuff....but it's kinda hard to see here.

This is what my yard currently looks like.  The left is done, the right is not.

 Another project popped up outside for Brandon this week.  The pole holding up our gate door rotted or something (I can't remember exactly what Brandon said) so Brandon had to fix that too.

Drilling in the new beam

See the new beam on the left there....such a handy man :)

The old pole.

 I'm so grateful that my husband is willing to tackle all of these projects.  He's such a great guy. :)

NOW, onto Fall and Halloween as promised.  I do have a Halloween wreath that I am in the process of making that I will have to show you later, but here is what I have up now:

Most importantly, my toilet decor...lol  This is a "fake" candle that my mother-in-law gave us last year.  Totally fun!  Note the bride and groom skeletons :)

This is one of my favorite items.  My wreath.  I actually bought this wreath in the spring to be my "summer" wreath (I like wreaths if you can't tell).  My husband took me on a special shopping trip to Holland to pick out a "summer" wreath (yes I'm spoiled), but all summer long I kept staring at it and thinking "This is a fall wreath".  So, here it is.  Up on our back door looking awesome-ly fallish! :)

Now, my pumpkins are pretty awesome too :)  Gotta give them some love as well!

And, the beloved Pottery Barn spider.  My husband's choice, but he is pretty awesome.

Here is my "fall' bouquet that Brandon and I made together last year :)

And finally my husband had a potluck at work, so even though it was still late September, I had to go with the Halloween theme and make "Halloween Parfaits"

Halfway done....

He had to help a little too.  Note the time of night.

Taadaa!  Totally fun!

Happy FALL :)